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Look up: foster

  1. foster
    nurture care for 
    Found on http://www.graduateshotline.com/list.htm

  2. Foster
    practice of placing piglets from mothers with too many piglets to feed adequately to mathers with extra udder space, should occur in first few days after birth
    Found on http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/swine/abc.html

  3. Foster
    Foster is a township in Madison County Illinois, USA Foster is a town in Clark County Wisconsin, USA Foster is a township in Perkins County South Dakota, USA Foster is a township in Hutchinson County South Dakota, USA Foster is a township in Beadle County South Dakota, USA Foster is a town in Providence County Rhode Island, USA Foster is a township in Mc Kean County Pennsylvania, USA Foster is a township in Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, USA Foster is a township in Luzerne County Pennsylvania, ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  4. Foster
    [adj] - providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties 2. [n] - United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864) 3. [v] - promote the growth of 4. [v] - bring up under fosterage 5. [v] - help develop, help grow
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. foster
    specially selected home,other than his own,in which a child may be placed for rearing,with or without adoption Category: Law • parent that feeds or brings up another`s child; e. g to serve as the mother of (foster-mother three little children-Dorothy C. Fisher) Category: Man and society • a number of criteria for deciding whether a state of a Markov chain(xn,n = 0,1,2,...)w...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  6. Foster
    Fos'ter transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fostered , present participle & verbal noun Fostering .] [ Middle English fostren , from Anglo-Saxon fōster , fōstor , food, nourishment, from fōda food. √75. See Food .] 1. To feed; to nourish; to support; to ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/68

  7. Foster
    Fos'ter intransitive verb To be nourished or trained up together. [ Obsolete] Spenser.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/68

  8. Foster
    Fos'ter adjective [ Anglo-Saxon fōster , fōstor , nourishment. See Foster , transitive verb ] Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/68

  9. Foster
    Fos'ter noun A forester. [ Obsolete] Spenser.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/68

  10. foster
    Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc, to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc, as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood. Foster babe, or child, an infant of child nursed by a woman not its ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  11. foster
    surrogate adjective providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; `foster parent`; `foster child`; `foster home`; `surrogate father`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. foster
    nurture verb help develop, help grow; `nurture his talents`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. foster
    verb promote the growth of; `Foster our children`s well-being and education`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  14. Foster
    • (n.) A forester. • (v. i.) To be nourished or trained up together. • (v. t.) To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up. • (v. t.) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  15. Foster
    Foster is a English boy name. The meaning of the name is `Nurture` Where is it used? The name Foster is mainly used In English. Foster doesn`t appear In 2007`s top-1000 name list.The last time Foster appeared In the top-1000 was 58 years ago, In 1950. It ranked #720 In that year. . 1890 was a `top year` for the name Foster. (Based on 128 years of
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Fost

  16. Foster
    Foster is a English boy name. The meaning of the name is `keeps the forest` Where is it used? The name Foster is mainly used In English. Foster doesn`t appear In 2007`s top-1000 name list.The last time Foster appeared In the top-1000 was 58 years ago, In 1950. It ranked #720 In that year. . 1890 was a `top year` for the name Foster. (Based on 128
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Fost


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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